Andrade Nyko, 2019

Informative Writing

Chicken Tinola Recipe

Chicken Tinola is a Filipino soup dish. It involves cooking chicken pieces
in ginger broth. It is a popular cold weather dish. I always feel warm and cozy
everytime I eat it. This Filipino Chicken Soup is best enjoyed with fish sauce
as dipping sauce, and a cup of warm white rice.
Tinola is traditionally cooked with wedges of unripe papaya and
malunggay leaves. These ingredients make it a good source of nutrients. The
secret in making a good tinola is to simmer the chicken for longer peroids of
time. This extracts the flavor from the chicken. It also makes the chicken
tender in the process.

Ingredients for Tinola

 1 whole chicken cut into seving pieces
 36 ounces rice washing
 ½ piece green papaya cut into wedges
 1 tablespoon of garlic minced
 1 piece onion chopped
 1 thumb ginger cut into strips
 2 tablespoon of fish sauce
 1 cup hot pepper leaves
 3 tablespoons of fish sauce
 ¼ teaspoon of ground black pepper
How to Cook Chicken Tinola
This recipe for Tinola is simple and straightforward. I highly recommend
this to beginnners
Start by sauteeing onion, garlic, and ginger. Do this by heating oil in a
cooking pot. Add onion and garlic. You can put either of the ingredients first,
followed by the strips of ginger. Make sure to sauté these until the onion
softens. You are almost done when you start to smell the good scent of
aromatics that you are cooking. The scent slowly fills the kitchen and it can
linger for a while.
Add chicken pieces. The size of each piece does not matter. It depends
on your preference. Cook the chicken for 3 to 5 minutes or until it turns light

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brown. You may even sauté longer if desired. I am adding a bit of fish sauce
during this step to provide initial flavor to the dish. You can option to add this
ingredients towards the end of the cooking process.
This chicken Tinola recipe makes use of rice washing for the soup. It
refers to the water used to wash the rice. Let me quickly describe the steps
on how this is done. Rice needs to be cleaned before cooking. This involves
pouring water on a rice cooker or pot where the rice will be cooked and stirring
everything until starch goes off from outer part of the rice. The starch water
is what we call rice washing. Simply drain the water from pot and use it for
your Tinola. Let it boil, cover the pot and simmer or you can also boil cover in
low heat for 40 to 45 minutes, or until chicken tenderizes. This is also the step
wherein you can add chicken cube or chicken powder to further enhance the
flavor of the soup.
Add the papaya once the chicken gets tender. Boil it for 5 minutes and
then add hot pepper leaves, or malunggay leaves. You are almost done.
The last part is to season your chicken Tinola with salt or fish sauce, and
ground black pepper. The amount of ingredients will depend on your
preference.
Instructions
1. Sauté the garlic, onion, and ginger.
2. Put-in the chicken and cook until color turns light brown
3. Add the fish sauce. Stir. Pour rice washing into the cooking pot. Let boil.
Cover the pot and simmer for 45 minutes.
Note: Add more water if needed
4. Add green papaya. Cook for 5 minutes.
5. Add the hot pepper leaves or malunggay leaves. Stir and cook for 1
minute.
6. Season with ground black pepper. Note you can also add fish sauce or
salt if needed.
7. Transfer to a serving bowl. Serve hot. Share and Enjoy!

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